Black Music, Black Poetry
Subtitle: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification
By: edited by Gordon E. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781315569475
Copyright date: 2014
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Authenticity in Black music and poetry; title: Original rags: African-American secular music and the cultural legacy of Paul Laurence; title: Dunbar's poetry / Ray Sapirstein Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spirituals / Lauri Ramey; title: Greatest is the song: blues as poetic communication in early Langston Hughes and Sterling; title: A. Brown / John Edgar Tidwell A real, solid, sane, racial something: Langston Hughes's blues poetry / David Chinitz; title: Part 2. Jazz: its spiritual lyricism; title: The funk aesthetic in African-American poetry / Tony Bolden; title: Go in the wilderness: the missionary impulse of Michael Harper's poetry / Joseph Brown; title: Part 3. Lyricism and the sonic aesthetic; title: Amiri Baraka: phenomenologist of jazz spirit / Christopher Winks; title: Nathaniel Mackey's Song of the andoumboulou: making different music / Scarlett Higgins; title: Hearing a new musical instrument: Harryette Mullen's critical lyricism / Lisa Mansell; title: Part 4. Transformational lyricism; title: Taking it out!: Jayne Cortez's collaborations with the firespitters / Renee M. Kingan; title: Pops, pygmies, and pentecostal fire: Sanders and Thomas's The creator has a master plan / Michael Coyle.